Happy New Year! I hope you had a fantastic holiday that included some rest and relaxation and lots of family time and reading and/or writing. I’ve spent the better part of my morning reading excellent posts from some of my favourite bloggers about New Year’s Resolutions, sipping coffee, and pondering my own resolutions for 2012. [...]
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Where’s Your Favourite Place to Read?
Just a quick post today as I’m mired in holiday preparations and celebrations as I am sure some (many?) of you are too. Where do you read? I have two favourite reading spots: in the bathtub (only paper books and never library books) and just before I fall asleep in bed. I know some people [...]
Pictures That Inspire Writing: The NaNoWriMo Edition
Since I’m knee-deep in NaNo, I thought I’d share a few pictures that have been inspiring my writing. I posted about how we writers can use photographs to inspire our writing a few months ago, and learned that looking at pictures (or photos) was something that many other writers did to inspire themselves to write. [...]
How Much Do You Read?
I set a lofty goal this year: read one book a week. I blame Goodreads for this insanity; when I joined the book tracking site earlier this year it encouraged me to set a reading goal. One book a week sounded attainable to me, so I set the goal using the Goodreads widget. Ever since, [...]
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Which Books Inspire You to Write?
A few months ago, I read The Birth House by Ami McKay. I’d heard about this book for years, but it took some time to make its way into my “to-read” pile. Once I picked it up, there was no putting it down! For those of you who haven’t read The Birth House, here’s the synopsis [...]
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What Gray the Duck Taught Me About Writing
My parents live on a lake in Eastern Canada. Each morning at 7 am, my Mom heads down to shore to greet her duck friends. The ducks are always there waiting for her. At first there were only two or three, but now she greets up to ten ducks on some mornings. No matter how [...]
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